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Thanks for the great suggestions, guys! Did I ask you for help?? $45k Tee-ruk LOL. *spikes football* :gabe: How I really feel about NB: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fI5hFr1-tJE/VhEtibskMNI/AAAAAAAAARo/2T3tg59QK9M/s1600/hand%2Bheart.jpg

Be Chrysler: have line workers drinking beers and schmoking-some-wheed on the job, still make cars people want to buy and be seen in.

Believe me, my bar for a DD is pretty low. If it's got A/C and shouldn't break, that's good enough for me. I was just amazed at: 1) How crappy the 3.8L Wrangler drove for how many people owned one 2) How much BETTER the 3.6L made the newer JL Wrangler behave (idle, accelerate, cruise)

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-denies-working-moscow-real-estate-project-153846323.html So, as a father, I will have to confront my children when they are caught doing something wrong. The first 5 or so minutes reminds me of a child trying to get out of trouble by fabricating a story on the fly. Seriously...watch this news feed and tell me that's not what Trump is doing.

Congratulations, Wags! Will you travel for your podcast, or set it up in one studio locally?

Good points, Kerry. Haven't even talked about "special edition" Jeeps...for as crappy as their products/content can be, you have to give credit to Mopar for marketing the s**t out of their cars and trucks. $35k honestly seems reasonable for a 300hp stick 4x4 with Dana 44s. I think the sweet spot for buying one will be off-lease: 2-4 years with less than 40k miles on them. Still some warranty, some depreciation taken off. A $35k Wrangler may still be $26-28k but it would be broken in with a new set of brakes/tires. Still focused on Tesla first... I remember a few years back driving a used 2012 Sport Wrangler with the older 3.8L 210hp V6. It was a noisy, awful-driving truck. Jumped in a new Rubicon with the 3.6L/6-speed and big tires and it rode and drove amazingly.

I don't understand why people pay $14-22k for side-by-side UTV's that can't be driven on the street. Must be a boys-and-their-toys, 96-month payment thing I don't understand. I will agree 100% with everyone else that $50k is a lot, but I am still impressed by the stats...where else in the WORLD can you get a 4-door 4x4 where the roof and doors and windshield fold/come off, you still have a utility bed to haul, and have modern features and a warranty for $50k? Maybe some of the above you can get on a '90s Defender? There's $35-75k right there for old tech. Some Land Cruiser-variant sold elsewhere in the world? Not as many open-air features and not available in the States. Just impressive to see a manufacturer do all of this in one vehicle in 2019. More impressive that neither GM nor Ford have even tried to take Jeep/FCA's market share. Bronco? Maybe, but it won't be as versatile. Blazer? Give me a f**king break. Downside: Holy hell...that Gladiator looks LOOOOOOOONG...

Wifey is hosting a Christmas party later in December. I'd like to avoid restocking the bar cart at Giant Eagle's liquor agency with full-retail prices. I don't host a lot at our house so our choices/supply is low. Any recommendations on sites to buy multiple bottles and ship them to our house? The other option is a trip up to Cleveland, where my dad is retired Navy and gets ridic-cheap stuff at the Coast Guard Exchange...

Sat on those pictures long enough. I forget the Earth looking that green already and it's still November.

INB4 starting price of $40,995

I'd take a used poverty-spec Sport as long as it's a 3.6L/6-speed manual. I've loved by 8' bed tee-ruks but I'm inclined to do this with a Harbor Freight folding trailer... https://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result/index/?AttribSel=Trailer+%26+Towing%3D%27Trailers%27&CatPath=All%2BProducts%252F%252F%252F%252FUserSearch%253Dtrailer&RequestData=CA_AttributeSelected&dir=asc&order=EAScore%2Cf%2CEAFeatured+Weight%2Cf%2CSale+Rank%2Cf&q=trailer

Remember all these years of me crapping on SUV's? Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhh...I'm taking a bit of that back for this bad boy... https://jalopnik.com/the-2019-jeep-gladiator-is-the-glorious-jeep-pickup-you-1830696134 - 4-door, 5-passenger family vehicle - 4-wheel drive - Classic Styling - PICKUP TRUCK BED WITH A TOW HITCH - CONVERTIBLE - STICK SHIFT

Is the machine a bad product, just because people aren't buying it? Hot take: Sedans and small cars are GREAT vehicles...people are the problem. If state/local governments want to shore up budgetary shortfalls, they should make an "SUV tax".

An additional piece of perspective that would be good to have: Chevy Cruze sales have been falling for some time. They were only operating one shift with 1,400 workers, considering it used to run 2-3 shifts. Also, GM still owns the factories so they will get mothballed. Could be brought back up when people are clamoring for smaller, more efficient cars at the next economic downturn...oh wait...those are already being made by GM in China/Mexico Sadly, I heard Lordstown got $3MM/year in employee income taxes and the school district received $800,000/yr from GM...10-20% of both budgets. It's definitely an economic hit, let alone all the other businesses and Tier 1/2 suppliers that will be affected in each market. Sucks. No amount of Trumpy-hope could've stopped the global economic pressures facing the U.S. automotive industry.

My bad... I thought I read that somewhere about the Mustang-bangin' sales. Still, scoreboard looks like a "W" to me. Camero LOL: - Everyone loves the Corvair UH OH SOMEONE QUICK REBODY A FALCON TO COMPETE WITH THIS MOOSTANG - We're going to stop producing in 2003. OOPS MUSTANG IS STILL GOING FIRE UP PRODUCTION. - We've got a V6 and V8 UH OH WE GOTTA DO A TRUBOE-4 CYL LIKE MUSTANG - This catfish front end looks awesome UH OH GOTTA GO ALL RETRO LIKE THE MUSTANG WHO LIKES TO DRIVE WHILE LOOKING THROUGH A MAILSLOOT??!?!? Camero, LOL. At least FCA isn't this product-stupid...look at the Challenger. Sales numbers are down, but when you have a 10+ year old proven platform that has gone from 300-707+hp, just keep building it. Save hundreds of millions in development costs, keep the marketing dollhairs flowing, and you'll have a profitable platform for years.

I remember going to the Zoning meeting and speaking in front of City of Columbus' comissioners about this project. Sad that as a "Smart City", this sort of facility couldn't be better utilized for motorsports or automotive technology development. https://www.columbusunderground.com/sparc-race-track-project-presumed-dead-we1 It's interesting to think how dramatically motorsports has changed just in the last 6-10 years...even with such a unique location opportunity and infrastructure approvals, it didn't get off the ground. Props to Schottenstein and everyone involved for trying to make this happen. Even the new Crew SC stadium will be in the Arena District over Cooper...

Dude, I've not seen a Vortech V-30 blower...crank-snout mounted...that looks awesome! Is it not intercooled because the fuel charge drops air inlet temps?

Someone safety-wired the bolts on the front brakes. Of all the safety issues that worry me about driving that Fiberfab MG, those brakes are not one of them.

Why GM is $37/share and Ford hasn't seen over $12/share in almost a year is beyond me. Ford stopped US-market car sales aside from Mustang and surprised no one as to why after a month of digesting the news. Still makes global product that sells well in multiple markets, and has been doing so since the Focus was introduced back in 2000. F-150 is a 40-year best seller. Mustang outsells Camaro by a 3x margin. Ecosport doesn't sell well here but who cares? It makes money internationally. As a current Silverado/Cavalier/CTS-V owner and a lover of the Corvette, I do feel that GM lost their way with products. The "Fiero Syndrome" is strong with GM, and it's depressing. http://jalopnik.com/the-cadillac-ct6-v-is-still-happening-and-will-go-out-i-1830663592 Tells me GM management doesn't know what the client wants, doesn't care, or truly can't produce a product that the market will buy (aside from trucks/SUVs and Corvette). To Cordell's points (of which I value his experience on GM products) I pay attention to even mundane DD vehicles and every early-'10s Equinox I see has some sort of loud engine rattle or worse. My neighbor has a '12 Equinox and the exhaust is totally rusted away. I told him there is no "fix", to just get some Walker parts online and I can replace them for him. He seemed rightfully miffed for a sub 125k-mile vehicle that's 6 years old and parks in a garage. When peeps ask me for an SUV recommendation, anyone who's buying instead of leasing I recommend a NON-GM product. If you want the FWD Acadia for a cheap monthly car payment on a lease, go get sucked into that POS and f**k off. Keeping an eye on the market for a used Model S for our family...wifey's orders. /rant off

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-26/bitcoin-s-deepening-crash-now-rivals-its-worst-ever-bear-markets?srnd=premium $3,9xx and falling...

I agree with Greg on McMansions...people can spend their money however they wish, but the fact is it's terrible sustainability. Do you really need that much land when you're not growing food, and still giving away all of your sensitive personal information online (space=privacy LOL)...and you don't use the 4000sqft to house more than 4 people? This American behavior is magnified in fire zones out west where people are building more and more McMansions. (Granted, I have 4 cars for 2 drivers, so myself and CR don't represent the standards of sustainability either. )

Dude, that panel is badass. Awesome to see technology like that making its way into the aftermarket!

Urban, way to go out on a high note. Thank you for some quality games and seasons.

That's a newer Mini body. Props to the engineering done to make this happen.

So...first off, I feel I have a good understanding of western U.S. wildfires: 1) Wildfires are natural events during dry seasons ANYWHERE there is vast vegetation on the planet. (Happens every year in the Florida Everglades, too) 2) Too many people moving into areas that had been undeveloped for thousands of years. Buildings, roads, landscaping changing the ground for fire-spread potential. 3) Human activity (campfires, power lines, explosions) creating fires instead of natural events (like lightning). 4) Climate change affecting rainfall/groundwater/humidity levels That all being said, it truly is sad that so many lives have been lost. I have to say that part of this issue is overpopulation in these fire zones where there hadn't been 100+ years ago. BUT....TRUMP LOL. Can he not get a halfway intelligent thought across without sounding like a totally uninformed moron? https://earther.gizmodo.com/trump-suggests-california-wildfires-can-be-avoided-by-r-1830516283